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Engine. Where Startups Come Together

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I’ve regularly blog about patent trolls harassing startups and impeding innovation, the experiences of immigrant founders, and the battle for a free internet. That’s where Engine Advocacy comes in. Engine connected 15,000 calls from individuals to their Senators that day. You can get involved by becoming an Engine member today.

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It’s An Agile World

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The backend infrastructure that handles all the Internet connectivity and services for a world-wide distributed technology that was built by a team of 150 engineers overseas. implemented with 2 engineers compared to an estimated 25 for the old system. I just read your post on Fixing the Obamacare site. deploys in 30 seconds.

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Feld.com Automagically Upgraded To HTTPS By Pantheon

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In this new era of state sponsored hacking and fully professionalized cybercrime, it is heartening to see engineers get seriously organized and tackle something on the scale of securing the entire web. Two years after the launch of Let’s Encrypt , this is fantastic progress.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

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Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” When I was was in college, I found some books written on the future social impact of the Internet on the World. We lost the campaign badly , but we won a major battle on The Frontier of Global Politics in the age of the Internet.

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Gnip Is On Fire

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Oh, and they are hiring as fast as they can find great people ; across the spectrum (business, sales, & engineering). And Boulder will have another substantial software / Internet company in the mix. I’m super proud of Jud and the team he’s built at Gnip.

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Finance Fridays

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At this point we are planning to use a consumer Internet company as an example, but we are also considering using a SaaS-based software company. As a special bonus for me, I get to work with four students on a project. I love working with and mentoring students, and am especially thrilled when they proactively reach out to me.

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Support Startups for Net Neutrality

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Engine Advocacy , Y Combinator , and Techstars are organizing a letter opposing these actions, signed by startups, investors, accelerators, incubators, and entrepreneurs. Congress is lining up behind him. Ten zillion words have been written about Net Neutrality.

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